Thursday, January 10, 2008

The self interpreter of "Generation Y" brings more completely banal and meaningless facts to the table in relation to the 2008 election:

"Younger Americans tend to think differently about gender. Generation Y — those born after 1977 — is dramatically more accepting of nontraditional gender roles than older generations; a recent survey found, for example, that 63% “completely disagree” that women should “return to traditional roles” in society. These younger Americans are also far more comfortable with homosexuality, which makes them less likely to assume that women who behave in less “traditional” ways must “really” be lesbians — and if they are, Gen Y-ers wonder, who cares?"

Wow, I thought that, like Carol Burnett and LaVerne and Shirley were breaking out of traditional gender roles in the '60s, on mainstream television no less!

Who knew that just a few years ago, like in the '90s, the pre-Generation Y population believed that if a woman went to college for something beyond cooking that they were lesbians?

What an unenlightened age.

But then again, when your reputation, and possible book deals, are on the line, absurdities like that Gen-Y people are radically different than, say, Generation X people, who grew up in the glow of the sixties themselves, are necessary to bolster your culture guru credentials.

5 comments:

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said...

I'm sorry, this is the first time I've been to your blog. Please clarify for me... Are YOU saying that YOU really think that most people born before 1977 think that college educated women are lesbians?

Sorry for the delay. I'm not saying that, I was being ironic. The person writing the article seems to think that the things that she's observing in "Generation Y" are completely unique. In fact, they've been things that have been part of our national life for many, many, years.

Of course people born before 1977 don't believe that college educated women are lesbians.